简单的英语谜语
谜语主要指暗射事物或文字等供人猜测的隐语，也可引申为蕴含奥秘的事物。 谜语源自中国古代民间，历经数千年的演变和发展。它是中国古代劳动人民集体智慧创造的文化产物。下面是小编为大家收集的简单的英语谜语，仅供参考，大家一起来看看吧。
What is higher without a head than with a head?什么东西在时候比没有的时候要比头要高?
[答案]a pillow(枕头)
What is dark but made by light?什么是黑暗的却是由光造的?[答 案]a shadow(影子)
What a room has no walls,no doors,no windows,and no floors?什么屋子没墙没门没窗户也没地板?
[答 案]a mushroom(蘑菇)
What person tried to make you smile most of the time?什么人大多时候会命令你笑?
[答案]a photographer(摄影师)
What has feet but no leg ,a face but no eyes,tells but not talk?什么东西有步没脚,有脸没耳,不说话就能告诉你信息?
[答 案]a clock(钟)
What is black when it is clean and white when it is dirty?什么东西黑的时候是干净的,白的时候是脏的?
[答 案]a blackboard(黑板)
What has a soft bed but never sleeps,a big mouth but never speaks?什么东西有床不能睡,有口不说话?
[答 案]a river(河)
What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?什么事情进去容易出来难?
[答 案]trouble(麻烦)
1.What is smaller than an insect’s mouth?
2.What season is the most dangerous one?
3.What’s too much for me，just right for two，but nothing at? all for three?
4.On what day of a year do soldiers start wars in history?
5.How many feet are in a yard?
6.What person tries to make others smile most of the time?
7.From what number can one take half and leave nothing?
8.What has hands but no feet， a face but no eyes，tells but does not talk?
9.How many months have 28 days?
10.Which horses have six legs?
11.Why don’t babies need glasses?
12.What do you drop when you need it and? take? back? when? you don’t?
13.What’s the difference between a monkey and a flea(跳蚤)?
14.What is black when it is clean and white when it is dirty?
15.What 5-letter word has six left when you take 2 letters away?
16.What is the center of gravity?
17.What never asks questions but always gets answers?
18.When Columbus discovered America，where did he stand?
19.What is "four feet on four feet waiting for four feet?
20.When the boy fell into the water，what’s the first? thing? he did?
21.Who isn’t your sister and isn’t your brother，but is still? a child of your mother and father?
22.What has teeth but can’t eat?
23.What kind of man can raise things without lifting them?
24.Which candle burns longer: a black one or a white one?
25.Why does a cook wear a high，white hat?
26.Can you name five days of the? week? without? saying: Monday， Tuesday，Wednesday，Thursday，Friday?
27.What kind of dog never can bite and bark?
28.What has a soft bed but never sleeps，a big mouth? but? never speaks?
29.Four girls have a basket with four apples in it. How can? you divide the apples so that each girl gets a whole apple and one still remains in the basket?
30.Which eight-letter word has one letter in it?
31.Three men were under one umbrella，but none of them? got? wet.How do they do it?
32.Where does afternoon always come before morning?
33.How much earth can you takefroma hole 2 feet long， 2? feet wide and 2 feet deep?
34.What rises in the morning and waves all day?
35.What is pronounced like one letter，written with three letters，and belongs to all animals?
36.Why can you tell clocks are shy?
37.What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
38.What cannot be seen but only heard，and will not speak unless spoken to?
39.What word can you make shorter by adding two letters to it?
40.What part of a clock is always old?
答案：
1.Anything it eats.
2.Autumn. Because it is also FALL.
3.A secret.
4.March fourth. When a war breaks out，they’ll have to march forth.
5.It depends on how many people are standing in it.
6.A photographer.
7.The number 8.
8.Take away the upper half and 0 is left.
8.A clock.
9.All of them. Each month has its 28th day.
10.All horses have forelegs(four legs) in front and two in back， so they all have six legs
11.Because they like bottles better.
12.An anchor.(锚)
13.A monkey can have fleas，but a flea can’t have monkeys.
14.A blackboard.
15.Sixty.
16.The letter V.
17.A doorbell.
18.On his feet.
19.A cat on a chair waiting for a mouse.
20.He got wet first.
21.You yourself are.
22.A comb.
23.A farmer. He can? raise? pigs， chickens? and? so? on? without lifting them.
24.Neither.Because all candles burn shorter.
25.To cover his head.
26.The day before yesterday，yesterday，today， tomorrow， and? the day after tomorrow.
27.A hot dog.
28.A river.
29.Give three girls an apple each，and give the fourth girl? her apple in the basket.
30.Envelope.
31.It was not raining.
32.In a dictionary.
33.None.Because it has been taken out already.
34.A flag.
35.Eye.
36.Because they always have their hands in front of their faces.
37.Trouble.
38.An echo.(回声)
39.Short.
40.The second hand.
1.What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white?
2. What has a round face and two thin hands, one hand short, one hand long?
3. What is big and bright during the day and we can’t see it at night?
4. I am small. I can fly. I like singing in the sky. What am I?
5. Which letter is a drink?
6. Which letter is around an island?
7. Which letter is an animal?
8. Which letter is a kind of vegetable?
9. Which is the longest English word? Why?
10. Which letter is a question?
11. Which letter is a part of your face?
12. I am very big and heavy. I have a long nose and big ears. What am I ?
13. I am the tallest animal in the world. What am I ?
14. I live in the sea. I am the biggest animal in the sea. What am I ?
15. What do you call your father’s father’s only son?
16. What is the biggest ant in the world?
17. What is in the middle of the world?
18. What do you call your father-in-law's only child's mother-in-law?
19. What is the smallest room in the world?
20. Teachers write on me with chalk. I can’t talk. What am I ?
21. You have it. You read it. There are some words and pictures on it. What is it?
22. Sometimes it looks like a boat. Sometimes it looks like a small white sun. What is it?
23. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
24. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
25. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
26.What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
27. I fly, but I have no wings. I cry, but I have no eyes.
28. How many letters are in the alphabet?
29. I am always with you. Sometimes behind you, sometimes before you, sometimes by your side, but you can’t see me in the dark.
30. What table is in the field?
31. What table can tell you what to do?
32.What changes a pear into a pearl?
33. What letter makes a road broad?
34. When do 2 and 2 make more than 4?
35. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without water. What am I?
36. What kind of dog doesn't bite or bark?
37. I am everywhere in the earth. Without me, you have to die. What am I ?
38. I can’t walk. I can’t fly. I can swim. What am I ?
39. I am green in spring and yellow in autumn. Birds like me and people like me. What am I ?
40. Chicken grows from it. What is it?
41. It’s very small in the sky, but it’s actually very big. What is it?
42. It’s a colourful bridge in the sky. What is it?
43. Why do lions eat raw meat(生肉)？
44. Why is six afraid of seven?
45. A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys.
How can this be possible?
46. I am white. You can drink me. I am in the dairy group. What am I ?
47. I am green or red. I am spicy and hot. I am in the vegetable group. What am I ?
48. I am a kind of fruit, green outside and red inside. What am I ?
49. I am a kind of fruit, yellow outside and white inside with small black seeds. What am I ?
50. I am orange. I am thin and long. Rabbits like me very much. What am I ?
51. David was out for a walk when it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?
答案
1.blackboard
2. a clock
3. the sun
4.a bird
5. T(tea)
6. C(sea)
7. B(bee)
8. P(pea)
9. smiles(There’s a mile between the first and the last letter.)
10. Y(why)
11. I(eye)
12. an elephant
13. a giraffe
14. the whale 15. father/daddy 16. an elephant 17. the letter “r”
18. mom 19. mushroom 20. a blackboard 21.a book 22. the moon
23. chicken 24. stamp 25. fire 26. river 27. cloud 28. eight
29. shadow 30. vegetable 31.timetable 32. “L” 33. “b” 34. (22)
35. a map 36. hot dog 37. air 38. fish 39. a tree 40. an egg
41. a star/ the sun/ the moon 42. a rainbow 43. Because they can’t cook.
44. Because seven eight(ate) nine.
45. Because all of her children are boys.
46. milk
47. pepper
48. a watermelon
49. a banana
50. a carrot
51. Because he’s bald.
